Language Arts Skills:
Identify new information gained from reading; Describe the development of plot and explain how conflicts are resolved; Use text organizers, such as type, heading, and graphics, to predict and categorize information; Choose planning strategies for various writing purposes; Organize information; Use commas to indicate interrupters and in the salutation and closing of a letter; Identify and use interjections.

Downloadable Tools for Reading & Writing

Kidspiration template for Persuasive Essay

Math skills:
Solve problems involving the probability of a single event using tree diagrams or sample space of possible results; Predict, and represent it using fractions or decimals from 0-1, then test the probability of outcomes of simple experiments; 5.17c Create a problem statement involving probability using given information; organize and display a set of numerical data using bar graphs, stem-and-leaf plots, line graphs. 5.18 Collect, Draw conclusions and make predictions using such graphs; 5.19 Find the mean, median, mode and range of a set of data.

Science: Earth Patterns, Cycles, and Change
5.7     The student will investigate and understand how the Earth’s surface is constantly changing. Key concepts include:
the rock cycle including identification of rock types;
Earth history and fossil evidence;
the basic structure of the Earth’s interior;
plate tectonics (earthquakes and volcanoes);plate tectonics (earthquakes and volcanoes);
weathering and erosion; and
human impact.

Plate Tectonics

Social Studies:
USI1.2  U. S. Geography

Major Rivers & Lakes in the U.S.